Housing
This section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here.
Just more than 1% of all of the homes in Maine were built in the years following the start of the pandemic.
Newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows which parts of Maine have welcomed the most new housing from 2020 to 2024 and where new developments have stalled.
This data comes as developers and lawmakers alike are pushing for new units to ease Maine’s housing shortage.
Southern Maine counties, such as York and Cumberland, have combined seen more than 5,000 new homes built in the last several years, while Piscataquis and Franklin have welcomed only a few hundred new units each.
Check out how much housing each Maine town built from 2020 to 2024, according to Census data. You can search by municipality to see a single location, or search by county name to see all of the communities in that county.
